Enterprise tech giants made less money in the cut-throat server market globally early this year despite moving more units and witnessing modest revenue growth in the Asia Pacific region, according to research firm Gartner. While shipments grew 1.4 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago, worldwide server revenue declined 4.1 percent as Continue Reading

This article describes how to setup a development environment for creation of Plesk extensions. Creation of a new Plesk extension can be started from generating a new stub. To do this log in to a machine with Plesk installation and type the following command: # plesk bin extension –create my-extension Continue Reading

This article describes how to setup a development environment for creation of Plesk extensions. Creation of a new Plesk extension can be started from generating a new stub. To do this log in to a machine with Plesk installation and type the following command: # plesk bin extension –create my-extension Continue Reading

Introduction A long time ago Plesk had one good little feature: when typing the panel address in your browser address bar, if you specified the port (8443), but omitted the encryption method (https), Plesk would redirect you to the address https://<server_hostname>:8443. In version 11.5, we replaced the lighttpd web server Continue Reading

In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for prototyping custom authentication that cannot be done via other available Continue Reading

Introduction A long time ago Plesk had one good little feature: when typing the panel address in your browser address bar, if you specified the port (8443), but omitted the encryption method (https), Plesk would redirect you to the address https://<server_hostname>:8443. In version 11.5, we replaced the lighttpd web server Continue Reading

In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for prototyping custom authentication that cannot be done via other available Continue Reading

Introduction From my own experience of VPS usage, I noticed the need for cloud backup storage. The current version of Backup Manager for Parallels Plesk Panel does not support any remote storage except FTP, but I wanted to utilize a cloud storage for that purpose. As a developer, I wanted Continue Reading

Introduction From my own experience of VPS usage, I noticed the need for cloud backup storage. The current version of Backup Manager for Parallels Plesk Panel does not support any remote storage except FTP, but I wanted to utilize a cloud storage for that purpose. As a developer, I wanted Continue Reading

Contention Ratio (or over subscription ratio) is the number of users sharing the same data capacity. The lower the contention ratio the higher the quality of service. A 50:1 contention ratio means that up to 50 broadband customers are sharing the same bandwidth at any one time. A contention ratio Continue Reading

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The Linux Foundation recently released their latest report on the state of Linux kernel development, and once again Parallels is listed as a top contributor and reviewer. This is the fourth time in as many years Parallels has been listed in the annual report. Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It Continue Reading

  Hypervisors were the right solution for the enterprise. Triple gains in efficiency over standard servers with added bonus of simplified manageability made it a king of the IT hill.  When ROI calculation can be done on the back of a napkin and IT can show the CEO millions in Continue Reading

  This post is part of our ongoing Parallels Partner Series, featuring the insights of service providers who are growing by meeting the cloud computing needs of Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs).   Vodien chose Parallels to be our virtualization partner, and it has been a fruitful partnership on our journey Continue Reading

CloudLinux is an extension to CentOS/RHEL that gives a web hosting company granular control over the number of resources that are assigned to each customer. CloudLinux solves noisy neighbors problem by preventing one customer from spinning too many processes and thereby dominating the machine. Plus it improves security: one customer Continue Reading

Dear Customers,   We will be performing a reconfiguration to our core switch  Service(s) affected : Intermittent downtime to the network Scheduled start time and date : 3:00 AM 27/05/2014 Estimated end time and date : 4:00 AM 27/05/2014   Details : We will be doing re-configuration to our core switches Continue Reading

Dear Customers,   We will be performing a maintenance that will impact the following services. Service(s) affected : VPS Windows Standard/Plesk/Forex edition- Singapore Scheduled start time and date : 12:00 AM 25/05/2014 Estimated end time and date : 1:15 AM 25/05/2014 Affected IP range : 117.120.5.x – 117.120.6.x Details : Continue Reading

Dear Customers,   We are currently experiencing an issue with our internal network and this is affecting our shared email hosting and web hosting. Our engineers are currently in the midst of resolving the issue and we will update as soon as it is resolved.   Service(s) affected : Shared Continue Reading

TSR-2014-0004 cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having security impact levels ranging Continue Reading

HOUSTON – May 14, 2014 – Microsoft TechEd North America, Booth #835 – BitTitan, the IT change automation expert for cloud-based migration and onboarding, today announced Public Folder and Document Migration are now available for the company’s automated migration solution,… Read more › The post Public Folder and Document Migration Continue Reading

HOUSTON – May 14, 2014 – Microsoft TechEd North America, Booth #835 – BitTitan, the IT change automation expert for cloud-based migration and onboarding, today announced Public Folder and Document Migration are now available for the company’s automated migration solution,… Read more › The post Public Folder and Document Migration Continue Reading

What is the Nginx web and proxy server and how does it compare to Apache? Should you use one of these servers or both? Here we explore some answers to these questions. The Apache web servers have been in use since 1995. Apache powers more websites than any other product; Continue Reading

What is the Nginx web and proxy server and how does it compare to Apache? Should you use one of these servers or both? Here we explore some answers to these questions. The Apache web servers have been in use since 1995. Apache powers more websites than any other product; Continue Reading

Brought to you by Fuji Xerox How often have you taken a bunch of business cards and left them in your pocket or in a corner of the table, after a long day of meetings? Well, don’t miss the details of an important contact – someone you might need to Continue Reading

Another day, another fine for a telecom company in Singapore. This time, OpenNet has been told to cough up HKD$240,000 after it failed to provide fibre broadband services to non-residential users on time, from April to September last year. The company, tasked to build the country’s national fibre optic network, had Continue Reading

After three weeks and more than 9 million downloads of WordPress 3.9, we’re pleased to announce that WordPress 3.9.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 34 bugs in 3.9, including numerous fixes for multisite networks, customizing widgets while previewing themes, and the updated visual editor. We’ve also made some Continue Reading

Today we have upgraded Anturis to Version 1.5. The new version of our IT monitoring and troubleshooting service features the beta version of our new mobile application – as well as new printer monitoring capabilities. From the very beginning we wanted to provide SMBs and web hosting providers with a Continue Reading

As more data begins to feed the computer systems of organisations big and small in the coming years, one headache that IT managers everywhere face is how to make sense of all the raw information. Enterprise software vendor SAP believes its in-memory HANA technology will be key to making sense of the data as Continue Reading

SUMMARY cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.24.18 with PHP versions 5.5.12 and 5.4.28. This release addresses the PHP vulnerability CVE-2014-0185 with the fix to a bug in the FPM package. We encourage all PHP users to upgrade to PHP version 5.5.12 or PHP version 5.4.28. AFFECTED VERSIONS All versions of Continue Reading

Singapore’s fibre broadband speeds got bumped up to a mind-boggling 10Gbps today, as M1 became the first to unveil a service that is, on paper, at least 10 times faster than previous offerings. Aimed at businesses such as data centres, financial institutions, other carriers and cloud service providers, the service Continue Reading

Dear Customers, We have detected a huge amount of traffic which we believe it could be a DDOS attack to our network at around 1245 GMT +0800 hours. We have since null route the affected ip addresses and begin investigation. Will post any updates here Sorry for the inconvience caused. Continue Reading

cPanel & WHM software version 11.38 has reached End of Life. In accordance with our EOL policy [http://go.cpanel.net/longtermsupport],11.38 will continue functioning on servers. The last release of cPanel & WHM 11.38, 11.38.2.23, will remain on our mirrors indefinitely. You may continue using this last release, but no further updates, such Continue Reading